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Artificial intelligence, automation and robotics

• March 20, 2019 20 Mar'19

  Fifth annual girls’ school techathon focuses on AI for social good

  Girls’ Day School Trust has held its fifth annual techathon to encourage more young women to pursue careers in tech

• March 19, 2019 19 Mar'19

  Government launches investigation into AI bias

  Advisory body will look at how systems that support decision-making may have inherent algorithmic biases that need to be taken into account

• March 19, 2019 19 Mar'19

  Firms urged to protect against spear phishing

  Spear phishing attacks are sophisticated, targeted, costly and increasing in popularity among cyber attackers, a report warns

• March 18, 2019 18 Mar'19

  Veeam’s business soars in APAC, acquisitions on the cards

  The backup, recovery and data management hotshot expects to grow its APAC business by about 40% this year, with an eye on acquisitions in adjacent market segments

• March 15, 2019 15 Mar'19

  Venture capitalists driving Nordic tech enterprise growth

  The vibrant tech sector in the Nordic region is attracting increasing attention from venture capitalists

• March 14, 2019 14 Mar'19

  IT Priorities 2019: ANZ organisations focus on fundamentals

  Organisations in Australia and New Zealand will spend more on modernising legacy applications and breaking down data silos this year

• March 13, 2019 13 Mar'19

  OpenText Enterprise World Europe: CEO Barrenechea stakes claim for EIM as competitive edge

  OpenText’s CEO and CTO Mark Barrenechea used his keynote at the company’s inaugural Enterprise World Europe customer and partner conference in Vienna to make a case for enterprise information management as a software category that can give corporate...

• March 12, 2019 12 Mar'19

  Cyber attackers favouring stealthier attacks, says Darktrace

  Cyber attackers are moving away from ransomware to stealthier tactics, including banking Trojans and cryptojacking, an analysis of attack data reveals

• March 12, 2019 12 Mar'19

  IBM’s APAC CEO talks up next chapter of cloud adoption

  In the next phase of cloud adoption, enterprises will need to manage multiple cloud environments, as well as data to scale up their use of artificial intelligence technology

• March 12, 2019 12 Mar'19

  RPA spend to increase after Brexit

  Organisations will spend 20-30% more as a result of admin overheads expected after the UK leaves the EU, but companies are unprepared and skills are in short supply, analysts say

• March 12, 2019 12 Mar'19

  Nationwide uses natural language processing to discover what annoys customers

  SAS has run a proof of concept at building society Nationwide, using artificial intelligence and natural language processing to determine how to improve customer correspondence

• March 12, 2019 12 Mar'19

  Assisted living system moves from Microsoft Azure to IBM Cloud

  IBM Cloud provides Watson artificial intelligence and internet of things technologies to support carers looking after elderly and disabled people

• March 12, 2019 12 Mar'19

  Australia should embrace automation but be aware of downsides

  Experts at a McKinsey event in Sydney called for Australian enterprises to automate while acknowledging the need to reskill workers whose jobs could be displaced

• March 12, 2019 12 Mar'19

  Singapore invests S$200m to upgrade supercomputing capabilities

  The investment will shore up Singapore’s supercomputing prowess to facilitate research collaboration, as well as address national and business challenges

• March 11, 2019 11 Mar'19

  United Utilities’ RPA crack team makes early gains

  Water company United Utilities is looking for opportunities to automate processes through a central team and collaboration with business users